Retrieved July 27, 2010. In contrast with linguistic information, encyclopedia material is more concerned with the description of objective realities than the words or phrases that refer to them. In practice, however, there is no hard and fast boundary between factual and lexical knowledge. ^ Jump up to: a b Cowie, Anthony Paul (2009). The Oxford History of English Lexicography, Volume I. Oxford University Press. p. 22. ISBN 0-415-14143-5. Retrieved August 17, 2010. An encyclopedia (encyclopaedia) usually gives more information than a dictionary; it explains not only the words but also the things and concepts referred to by the words. Jump up ^ Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond dAlembert Encyclopédie. University of Michigan Library:Scholarly Publishing Office and DLXS. Retrieved on: November 17, 2007 Jump up ^ Ἐγκύκλιος παιδεία, Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, 1.10.1, at Perseus Project Jump up ^ ἐγκύκλιος, Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek–English Lexicon, at Perseus Project Jump up ^ παιδεία, Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek–English Lexicon, at Perseus Project Jump up ^ According to some accounts, such as the American Heritage Dictionary, copyists of Latin manuscripts took this phrase to be a single Greek word, ἐγκυκλοπαιδεία enkyklopaidia. Jump up ^ Roest, Bert (1997). Compilation as Theme and Praxis in Franciscan Universal Chronicles. In Peter Binkley. Pre-Modern Encyclopaedic Texts: Proceedings of the Second Comers Congress, Groningen, 1 – July 4, 1996. BRILL. p. 213. ISBN 90-04-10830-0. Jump up ^ Carey, Sorcha (2003). Two Strategies of Encyclopaedism. Plinys Catalogue of Culture: Art and Empire in the Natural History. Oxford University Press. p. 17. ISBN 0-19-925913-5. Jump up ^ encyclopaedia (online). Oxford English Dictionary (OED.com), Oxford University Press. Retrieved February 18, 2012. ^ Jump up to: a b c Hartmann, R. R. K.; James, Gregory; James, Gregory (1998). Encyclo